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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2013-12-23 21:53:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2013-12-23 21:53:37 +0200 |
| commit | 9beee977ccb0703656504c070ab85e54537f8f95 (patch) | |
| tree | 0dd1636d79223b91b23fd43cba0581fea63e295d /README_d | |
| parent | d3e8016ffd4de45fb8ea5a76a1aa2048f3facaa9 (diff) | |
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More doc updates, fix initialization on VAX/VMS.
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| -rw-r--r-- | README_d/README.VMS | 11 |
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diff --git a/README_d/ChangeLog b/README_d/ChangeLog index a9e95b77..ed2a86b0 100644 --- a/README_d/ChangeLog +++ b/README_d/ChangeLog @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -2013-12-20 John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw@qsl.net> +2013-12-23 John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw@qsl.net> * README.VMS: Document decoding Gawk VMS exit codes. -2013-12-16 John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw@qsl.net> +2013-12-16 John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw@qsl.net> * README.VMS: Further updates. -2013-12-05 John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw@qsl.net> +2013-12-05 John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw@qsl.net> * README.VMS: updated with current build information. diff --git a/README_d/README.VMS b/README_d/README.VMS index 3689ad83..d689aa31 100644 --- a/README_d/README.VMS +++ b/README_d/README.VMS @@ -157,3 +157,14 @@ Older versions of Gawk incorrectly mostly passed through the Gawk status values instead of encoding them. DCL scripts that were checking the severity values will probably not need changing. DCL scripts that were checking the exact exit status will need an update. + +VAX/VMS floating point uses unbiased rounding. This is generaly incompatible +with the expected behavior. The ofmta test in the test directory will +fail on VAX. + +Gawk needs the SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE or TZ logical name to be defined or it +will output times in GMT. + +The vmstest.com script needs SYS$TIMEZONE_NAME to be defined to match +the SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE. Older versions of VMS do not define these logical +names. |